Heart Hope by Olga

On my husband Tommy's last birthday, he was required to get a new driver's license. In the state of Colorado, you can usually go online and renew it, so he questioned why that was not possible for him. After going to the motor vehicle office, he understood. The officials at the DMV told him that for the last nine years he had been driving with no valid license and he would have been arrested if he had been stopped for a violation. Because of this situation he would have to take the written test, go to driving school, take the driving test and pay a large fine. All of this was due to a mistake. Tommy had gotten a traffic ticket almost ten years before and although he had paid the fine that was due, the court had not recorded the payment on time and it caused the revocation of the license of which he had not been notified. He was unknowingly guilty. As a member of the human race we are all guilty, but many don't know that they fall short of God's standards and are u...

Guilty…I’ll admit it. I was guilty as charged. When the police officer pulled me over I had been speeding. Although at the time I was not fully aware that I was going too fast, because I actually never realized that the speed limit dropped from 45 to 25 mph when you rounded the corner on the frontage road. There is no telling how many times I should have been stopped over the years, but was not. I guess it was just my “unlucky day” that a police officer just happened to be sitting at the very spot where the lower speed was required. The first thing the female official said to me is, “Are you on the way to the hospital? Or what’s your emergency?” I wished that I could have begged or pleaded my way out of the ticket, but when she announced that I had been going almost double the speed limit with my 47 mph speed, I knew there was no need in even trying. So I apologized, letting her know that I was sorry for hurrying to my next appointment. Being sorry made her soften a bit, but did...